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Wermut/Wormwood
Bot.: Artemisia absinthum
Healing power:
A Wormwood vine is recommended - for colds, - gall trouble, - bronchitis, - influenza, - hay fever, - weak kidneys, - weak eyes, - sinusitis. A Wormwood tea is recommended - for stimulating the appetite, - as stomach, intestine and gall remedy, - for influenzas and colds, - rheumatism, - period pain, - as remedy for worms. Wormwood activates the immune system. How to use:
The young leaves are picked during blossom and dried.
Recipe for the Wormwood vine as healing vine:
Wormwood´s active substances are extracted by the alcohol out of the plant. The best is to take pure vine from biological cultivation.
Mix 0,35 litre white or red vine with 15 gr dried Wormwood. Let draw for 1 week. Drink 1 little glass daily.
Recipe for the Wormwood tea:
Pour 1/4 litre boiling water on 1 dessert spoon Wormwood, let it draw for 10 minutes. Then pass it through a sieve. Drink 1 cup of Wormwood tea up to 3 times per day.
In homoeopathy the remedy Absinthium is used for nervous and hysteric convulsions and epileptic fits.
Pregnant women shouldn´t take Wormwood. Description of the plant:
Wormwood grows perennial, reaches a height up to 1 m, gets bushy and glimmers grey.
From June to Septembre the plant gets little light yellow flowers.
You find Wormwood wild at pathes and streams. It smells very strong and spicy.
Wormwood loves a sunny to halfshady location in a chalky soil. Propagation:
Sow the seeds from March to April indoors in flats, at the beginning of May directly in your garden.
The very thin seeds only have to be pressed on the soil, don´t cover them with soil, because they need light for germination.
Germination follows at temperatures of 15-20° C after 14-21 days.
At the end of April seperate the litte plants in a distance of 40x40 cm. Ingredients:
essential oils like thujol, thujon, phellandren, bitter constituents like absinthin, tanning agents.
